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Meet the people who will be choosing the nominations and Judge's Choice Awards for 2013! We all have different things we like to look for in a wiki, so look here to see what you should work on to get your wiki noticed.-

Head Judges

Head Judge: CaptainSpazYes, that is the Hylian Shield and Master Sword from The Legend of Zelda on the wall behind me.Deputy Head Judge: Naru2008
Meet the Judges - Wetpaint Golden Paint Can Awards
Bio: Over 55,000 total Wetpaint Contributions on over 10 wikis. Wetpainting for over five years. Graduated with an A.A in Liberal Arts from West Valley College in 2009 and Graduated with a B.S in Justice Studies from San Jose State University in 2012.
What I am looking for:
  • Well-designed and organized homepage
  • More than one member contributing
  • Reasonable amount of meaningful activity
  • Professional looking material
  • Good community/structure
My tools of the trade:
  • Firefox nightly
  • IE 10
  • Paint.net
  • Kaspersky Internet Security 2013
  • Vuze
Time zone: PDT; GMT -8

Bio: Currently a Senior in high school. Been Wetpainting for close over 4 years. Has made over 22,000 contributions on Wetpaint and is currently registered on over 40 Wetpaint Wikis. Is currently a Wetpaint Community Administrator on Wetpaint Central, and has been a Community staff member for over 2 years now. Also the Liaison for Wikis by Wetpaint and Wetpaint.Inc.
What I am looking for in the wikis:
  • Original Content
  • Dedicated Members
  • Hard-Working Staff
  • A good, active, and friendly community
  • No 'one-woman show' (so to speak)
Tools I use on a daily basis:
  • Firefox 15.0.1
  • uTorrent
  • Spotify
  • SuperRAM 6
  • DAEMON Tools Pro
  • WinRar
  • Advanced SystemCare 6

Support Judges

Meet the Judges - Wetpaint Golden Paint Can Awards
(Naruto87)
Bio: I am a High School student and have been on wetpaint for almost 4 years from September 29 to now. I been all around wetpaint I been active many sites and owner of many as well. I have over took control as owner of many inactive sites and made them active as well. I am a Former Wetpaint Community Moderator and now am a Wetpaint Community Writer and been judge for 2 years. I am a Web and Graphic Designer and have almost over 30,0000 contributions on Wetpaint.

What I will be looking for?

  • I looked for is focusing content on what's your wiki is mostly about.
  • Influencing and attracting welcoming message with steps when newcomers join
  • Hard/Love/Helpful Staff
  • Good Content Info and with good grammar. ( IF COULD DO SO.)
  • Manmade Original Content, and great manmade images/graphics
  • Good loving Community that spend their time in their wiki,staff, and users
  • .ANTI-FREE SPAMMING (On threads, pages, and users profiles.)
Tools I Use
  • Paint.net
  • Gimp
  • Firefox
  • Internet Explorer 10
  • Microsoft Security Essentials
  • Google Chrome
  • Windows 8
Designer for the masthead and badgesMaxwilly
(Maxwilly "ANARCHY")
Bio: Mostly ex-Wetpaint member who has spent the last two and a half years learning web design and application development. I now run Glimmer Studios (website coming soon) and perform web design as a paid service. I also have a series of applications, one of which is a web browser by the name of Serum.


Ex-Wetpaint Central moderator, WPAds writer and active Golden Paint Cans judge (second year running).

During my two years on Wetpaint, I have learned the platform top to bottom. Combine that with my experience as a freelance graphics, application and web designer, and you have a judge who knows exactly what to look for when analysing a website.

What I am looking for:

  • A professional logo
  • Fluent, intuitive and friendly layouts & formatting
  • Subtle, fixed colour scheme
  • Up-to-date content
  • Active, friendly and spam-free community
  • Carefully selected staff who know what they're doing
  • An amazing first impression (banner, home page, welcome message)

Meet the Judges - Wetpaint Golden Paint Can Awards
(walrusworldstudios)
Bio: Currently a senior in High School, Captain of the Cross-Country team, and one of the Varsity Track and Field runners at his high school. A Superpainter who's used Wetpaint for over five years. He has worked on various websites as an administrator. Most commonly associated with Warrior Cat Clans 2 Classic, Wetpaint Promotional Advertising, and American Idol Fan Wiki. He is currently a Golden Paint Can Awards Support Judge and an administrator on Wetpaint Central. He has over 35,000 overall contributions on Wetpaint. He won a very close race with CryingDove for Wetpainter of the Year. He hopes to attend Boston College as a member of the Class of 2017.

What I am looking for:
  • Page Design (Page design is neat and organized. Flow of the design is key.)
  • Hardworking Staff (Staff Members are dedicated to improving the site.)
  • Initial Reaction (Site should be original and creative at first glance.)
  • Strong Community (Members are respectful, welcoming and support the site.)






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Crystalfrost A judge this year? 2 Jan 24 2013, 7:06 PM EST by Crystalfrost
Thread started: Jan 24 2013, 2:05 PM EST  Watch
I know that last year, when I was selected as one of the judges, I backed out because I was afraid I wouldn't be able to be active enough to actually be a contributing judge. This year should be different, though, and I was wondering if I could be a judge.
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Skystar59 Judges I wish for a word from you.. (page: 1 2) 38 Aug 28 2012, 9:23 PM EDT by CaptainSpaz
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So I am as many might say 'New' to the awards. This is my second year and my sites second year. I love the idea and think of it as a great idea to compete and have fun trying to make your site the best you can make it! But.. This is getting pretty sad. By what I've seen around here two sites should be banned from the awards.. every now and again. Twisted Fury Pack Reborn and Warrior Cats Clans Classic 2 (TFPR or WCC2 .. in case I got the names right).

Not only do these sites win each year they are nominated, but I noticed this year we have 3 (maybe 4) judges from WCC2 and I think this is unfair for the rest of the sites running.

I know that with my site running behind them I feel like a failure when I know I have no chance in winning first place as I bet a lot of other sits feel. I have spoken to a great number of wetpaint members from my site and another site who agree with me. With those two sites running year after year there is next to no chance for any of the other sites.

On behalf of some wetpaint users I would like you all to take this into consideration so that the awards can be more fair for the rest of us.

--Skystar59, a proud Creator.
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Crystalfrost Unfortunately... 3 Aug 12 2012, 7:13 PM EDT by blackoutstar
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I'm sorry to say that things have been getting kind of rough. Around the time the actual judging will happen, I may or may not be able to take part. I don't want this to happen, so I'd like to relinquish my judging position. I hope I haven't waited too long to do this, and that a new judge can still be found. I apologize again for this. I'd rather give it up now than not be around when it comes time to judge. Please forgive me for any inconvenience I may have caused.
~Crystal
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